What is Reading Recovery?
Reading Recovery is a highly effective short-term intervention of one-to-one tutoring for low-achieving first graders. The intervention is most effective when it is available to all students who need it and is used as a supplement to good classroom teaching.
What does a lesson look like?
Each lesson consists of reading familiar books, reading yesterday’s new book and taking a running record, working with letters and/or words using magnetic letters, writing a story, assembling a cut-up story, and reading a new book. The teacher creates opportunities for the child to problem solve and provides just enough support to help the child develop strategic behaviors to use on texts in both reading and writing.
What is the daily homework?
Each evening, students in Reading Recovery will bring homework to be completed daily at home. This is an important part of the program as it builds fluency and confidence in reading! Students will bring home a book to share with you that they are able to read well and have practiced at school. They will also bring home a cut up sentence that we worked on in that day’s writing lesson. Follow the guidelines to complete the daily homework, and bring it back to your teacher each day!
How are student selected?
Reading Recovery serves the lowest-achieving first graders—the students who are not catching on to the complex set of concepts that make reading and writing possible. Students are assessed and the best candidates for the program are selected by the building’s team.
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